This will be the same stuff I am posting in my weak@ss log over on vf. I still feel really weak since I can't lift as much weight as I used to. But I am definitely going to be more active now that we've switched gyms. I'm thinking upper body 2x a week and lower body 2x a week for now. Some yoga, spinning, aquaaerobics & lots and lots of skating.

abbreviations I use mostly I do free weights with dumbbells these are marked DB and weight is per dumbbell. BB is barbell weight is listed as total for the whole thing. cm is cable machine and m means the standard machine that works that specific body part.

followed by an hour of yoga.. did lots of ab work in the yoga class. closer to pilates I think than what I'm used to. I realize I forgot to work my back during my weight session.. will definitely hit my back hard on my next upper body workout.

So I just got back from my very first SPIN class. It went amazingly well. Kind of like that 20K I ran last year and had only practiced running 5-6 miles beforehand. Surprisingly I ran the whole 20K at a comfortable pace but then had trouble walking for the following week. I think I'm going to have that same problem as I was fine in the class - going strong - but now my legs feel like they are going to go on strike on me or something. Before the class I spent 10 minutes on the stepmill to get my heart rate up. I'd didn't get it up to a running pace but to a fairly fast walk. I won't be skating around tomorrow yelling 'jump' at my daughter like I planned. Hopefully I will be okay to do my upperbody workout while she is practicing.

Cool, I still haven't started my training log on here! I will do that soon, thanks or the reminder. I'm also getting interested in finishing my children's books. I get too many things going on and don't finish them...ahh.

Best of luck wtih your training program. How is the new gym working out?

The gym is going great! I feel SO motivated. I'm going to be curling 40# dumbbells again in NO time at all. I know .. I know I should measure my strength in my bench press but I LIKE using dumbbells for bench and I'm not going to be doing anywhere near my barbell PB of 135# with dumbbells anytime soon. So I'm talking about what I can curl! I am on my way to being STRONG again. I'm sick of being weak.

Renecarol25 wrote:The gym is going great! I feel SO motivated. I'm going to be curling 40# dumbbells again in NO time at all. I know .. I know I should measure my strength in my bench press but I LIKE using dumbbells for bench and I'm not going to be doing anywhere near my barbell PB of 135# with dumbbells anytime soon. So I'm talking about what I can curl! I am on my way to being STRONG again. I'm sick of being weak.

I want to try a Spinning class some time. It looks like so much fun! It also looks like a really tough workout.

When I worked for Celebrity Cruises, a bunch of the employees (mostly fitness people, dancers, and some youth supervisors) would do spinning classes after hours, when the gym was closed to the regular guests. I'd be in there doing my weight training and watch them sweat and grit their teeth. I was tempted to hop on a bike but never did.

How do you like it?

I think I'll try it soon. I'm getting pumped about cycling as well because of the Tour de France going on and after watching my friend compete in a Triathlon, some guys had bodybuilding type quads!

Like I said so far so good. The first class was much easier than I was expecting.. so I suspect I may have had a bit of beginner's luck. The second class was much much harder and I'm betting from now on they will be that way. I guess I will get used to the new schedule. Two days of upperbody, two days of lower body and two days of spin plus whatever swimming and skating I do. I'm already feeling an improvement in my overall health /fitness. Plus I am getting to share some of my knowledge of body sculpting with others. And I have a friend at work who asked me about being vegetarian.. so I gave him a copy of Why Vegan and Vegan Starter Pack. And I am going to go through my books and see what I have that I can loan. I'm thinking "Diet for a New America" and maybe "sexual politics of meat" but that may not be appropriate to give a man. Or maybe I've given too much? what do you think? I'm not used to people asking me why i'm veg*n.. I pretty much keep to myself about my beliefs and stuff.

Today is a fine example of why this log is called my 'weak@ss log' on the other board. I decided to do a 4 day split push pull workout. Since my daughter is having a sleepover tomorrow I did Day A & B together tonight. I'll do C on Thursday and D on Saturday. I really struggled a lot with it. I did B day first and A day second. I only did 2 sets of some exercises to compensate for doing two days worth and I skipped a couple of exercises. Enough background...

workout done Friday the 22nd instead of Thursday the 21st. I got new skates and skated Thursday for 1.5 hours instead of lifting. I'm going to skate and do my legs & arms push workout today.. decided not to do Spin this morning and slept in.

Your consistent training and updates helps motivate me to get to the gym. My "life" has been so busy lately that I've missed many many workouts. I'll be chatting with Kollision or Topher and they'll ask, "how was training today" and I am usually like "too tired to get to the gym, work and other personal/work related things keep coming up.

I used to take on even more back in Arizona and Utah and still managed good consistent workouts, but then again, I lived very close to the gym, now I'm a little ways away and don't have consistent transporation. I'll get things figured out soon and I don have some weights at home so I gotta get by butt back in gear.

Thanks for keeping a journal consistently. I plan on doing the same, listing all my workouts so everyone can help keep me consistent in the gym.